Calm & Emotional Piano/Strings Music- A Place of Friends

Composer - Northern Owl

Producer - Paul Smith

Equipment

DAW - Logic Pro X
(Formerly Garageband)

Additional Compressors - MJUCjr, Klanghelm

Final Cut Pro

Art - Northern Owl

Inspiration
(Before reading this, I encourage you to listen to this song first, to interpret it however you wish.)

The origins of this one are much more personal to me than most of my works.

My deepest fear is returning to the place I left behind. The place where I was glared at for being myself. That convoluted social game which convinced me that I was worthless, repulsive, and unworthy of a voice. Back then, I did everything I could to silence myself, to be invisible. I wasn't very good at it. How do you say nothing when you have everything to say?

I did take solace in the acceptance I received from my family and the handful of friends I had. And that was enough, it really was. But I didn't dare hope that I could have anything more. Being openly welcomed, outside of my family? It was an impossibility, a pipe dream.

Then there was that day I got the opportunity to spend some time, however brief, in a new place. There would be people there for the same reason I was. The only thing I knew to expect was more of the same: no warm reception from my peers, only glares and the safety of silence. So, imagine my surprise when I was...welcomed. By everyone. I felt safe enough to raise my voice just a little. No glares. It was like releasing a breath I had been holding for years. This song was based on that joyful catharsis.

I've since moved on form the place I left behind. Here's hoping that, if not already, you can find your place of friends.